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As expected, today was a low post count edition due to yesterday being Thanksgiving in the US. I expect normal levels to return on Monday.

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A Reading Guide To Becoming A Better Developer – Davy Brion shares his recommended reading list (and order) of books to help make you a better developer. All of the books mentioned are the best in their field, and there are some additional recommendations from Davy’s readers in the comments section

Supporting multiple submit buttons on an ASP.NET MVC view – Maarten Balliauw shares a neat technique using a custom attribute derived from the ActionNameSelectorAttribute to allow ASP.NET MVC to make decisions about which action to call allowing you to have two submit buttons on a form, each doing different actions when called.

Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications Part 1 – Gabriel Schenker begins a new series looking at using Mono Cecil to add instrumentation code into assemblies to allow them to be profiled, focusing specifically at profiling Silverlight applications. This first part introduces Mono Cecil and looks at how it work generally with any .NET Assembly

TDD: Testing delegation – Mark Needham talks about the evolution of his testing style when testing delegation based code, looking at how he now perfers stubs to full mocks in this situation

Reconsidering Code Coverage – Bj Rollison discusses the issue of Code Coverage in testing, looking at the various metrics, and discussing the usual question of is high test coverage a good measure of the depth of testing